Ideas Quotes

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

Gear is the least important part of the equation. Having a vision and being able to articulate an idea visually are much more important.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.

Living with computers gives funny ideas.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of photographers that come in and tell these stories.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.

Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.